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The best I can do against AI is prevent their crawlers from accessing my work. I've built iocaine for this purpose, and it's happily serving an infinite maze of poison to all the crawlers, and they ain't getting through. A number of other people and organizations also use it, and that gives me warm, fuzzy feelings.
I also wrote about surviving the crawlers, and helped a couple of friends have a li'l fun with them. That's actually quite fun.
I also helped our twins ween their teacher off of ChatGPT: she's otherwise a great teacher, but she's been using ChatGPT to give them homework. It had so many mistakes, typos! So they started to quietly correct the exercises with red pen, and handing the homework in, with the questions corrected too. Other kids saw that too, started doing the same. Then it spread to other classes. Two months later, none of the teachers use ChatGPT (or any other "AI") anymore, and the word of them being laughably crap spread to households that otherwise wouldn't be aware. New kid came to town, "you guys know about chatgpt?!" - he stopped talking about it by the end of the week.
Sometimes being openly, vocally very AI-hostile pays off. So I'm going to continue doing that.
Sounds cool as hell! Talk to me about Iocaine - is this for people who self-host or can I put this on my websites somehow?
It's for self-hosters, I'm afraid. The idea behind it is that your webserver / reverse proxy forwards all GET and HEAD requests to it, it does some heuristics and either returns a page filled with garbage your webserver/reverse proxy can serve, or a 421 (misdirected request) error code, at which point your webserver / reverse proxy can serve the real contents. So to run it, you need to be able to make it play nice with your webserver or reverse proxy, which pretty much means you'll have to self-host, yeah.
The garbage part is important, because that's how iocaine serves poisoned URLs (urls that have an identifiable substring), so if any of the crawlers come back, and manage to get through all other heuristics iocaine puts in front of them, if they land on a poisoned URL, they'll get caught anyway.
That sounds incredible (even if I had to google a lot of the terms haha). Would you do me a big favor and make a post about this in https://slrpnk.net/c/selfhosting if you haven't already? We would love to have you over on slrpnk.net, where we enjoy the blend of tech + the environment and hate AI. I would post myself but I'm just now investigating personal websites and switching to Linux so I don't think I'd be able to do your project justice.
I can do that, probably over the weekend.